Back to my face. I used grey paper for the colour version so the white highlights pop a bit more. This one is interesting to me. The nose is too wide, the eyes are slightly […]
Category: part 4
part 4: ex 3: bigly
I chose a hand sketch for this enlargement exercise. I overlaid a grid on a digital version of the image, for the sake of convenience, rather than adding a grid to the picture itself. The […]
kk revisited
A study of Käthe Kollwitz’s Whetting the Scythe – pencil and charcoal. I lost concentration here when doing the initial sketching out and have ended up with an elongated composition – the original is roughy […]
part 4: ex 2: feet
My feet. I found my feet a more difficult subject than my hands – perhaps because I look at them a lot less that at my mitts. The red drawing follows on directly from my […]
part 4: ex 2: hands
Here I am applying some of the techniques used by Egon Schiele to make the compositions more interesting and to create more dramatic negative spaces – letting the hands touch or overshoot the edges of […]
part 4: ex 1: still life x 3
I was having trouble finding a suitable set of objects around the house that were of similar form, size and colour so got a little … creative and decided to play with scale. The brief […]
all hands
A few fast scribbles of my hand (sitting in the sun). Between the glare of the sun, the harsh shadows and my sunglasses, I was partially unsighted and not able to see exactly what I […]
egon
A few Egon Schiele studies, paying specific attention to the treatment of negative space. Interesting the way the figures carve up the canvas by touching or going beyond the edges. Also, they sometimes rest on […]
getting to know me (or at least my face)
Colin walks into a bar. The bartender asks “why the long face?” Colin replies “oh I’m fine – I’m just drawn that way”. Freestyle from a selfie. It’s me (ish) alright but a very elongated […]